Hans Holbein, the Younger, who had been recommended to More by his friend, Erasmus, arrived in England in 1526. Next year, he began a painting of Sir Thomas More and his family. A preparatory sketch for the original survives, but the painting itself was destroyed by fire in the eighteenth century. Fortunately, paintings which were created based on it by Rowland Lockey in the late sixteenth century, survive. The Nostell Priory painting is thought to be a close likeness to the original, while the National Portrait Gallery and the V & A paintings include additional family members, descendants of More. These two are thought to have been commissioned by Thomas More, grandson of Sir Thomas More, the gentleman with the tall hat on the right in these paintings.